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45 years ago, NASA's Voyager spacecraft flew past Jupiter. See how the iconic video compares to photos of the planet today.
Voyager 1 captured Jupiter as nobody had ever seen it before. Now, 45 years later, NASA's Juno spac…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Ellyn L…
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NASA's Juno spacecraft flew above Jupiter's Great Red Spot and discovered that the vortex churns up to 310 miles deep
Jupiter's iconic storm is taller than the distance between Earth ant the space station. The jet str…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected mysterious changes in Jupiter's Great Red Spot
The winds are changing inside Jupiter's biggest storm, and scientist aren't sure what it means. But…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Jupiter's Red Spot Junior is ready to change colors — turning brick-red yet again
Jupiter’s Giant Red Spot — the most powerful storm in the solar system — has a younger, less notice…
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot shrunk took 350 years to shrink to one-third its original size
A new study predicts that even though it’s not any less thick, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is definite…
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New images reveal Jupiter's Great Red Spot and its smaller counterpart, Red Spot Jr., in stunning detail
Two telescopes worked together to capture jaw-dropping images of Jupiter through different types of…
Aylin Woodward
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Jupiter's mushball ammonia rain could explain the mystery behind shallow lightning storms in its atmosphere
Previous observations of the storms across Jupiter showed that its Jovian lightning flashes were…
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Astronomers just stitched together an unprecedented portrait of Jupiter in infrared — and realized its Great Red Spot is full of holes
Astronomers created a "weather satellite" by linking a Jupiter-orbiting spacecraft, NASA's Hubble S…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures photos of dark red storms raging in Jupiter's Northern hemisphere
New photos of Jupiter taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will help scientists to track and bett…
Marianne Guenot,Morgan McFall…
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Side-by-side Jupiter images show James Webb's infrared prowess. It spots auroras, rings, and faint galaxies Hubble can't see clearly.
Webb's new images of Jupiter showcase its auroras, rings, and extremely faint galaxies, which Hubbl…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Jupiter, Saturn and Mars ignore social distancing as they plan to meet the Moon this week
They’ve been inching closer over the last few weeks and have a planetary quartet planned before …
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope imaged Jupiter's rings and moons, in white-hot infrared
NASA's new Webb telescope is powerful enough to capture galaxies 13 billion light-years away, and s…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Mesmerizing new NASA image shows the lava on one of Jupiter's moons that helps form the massive planet's auroras
NASA's Juno spacecraft snapped an infrared picture of Jupiter's moon Io, which is home to hundreds …
Paola Rosa-Aquino,Morgan McFa…
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Skywatching in May 2022 – Mars-Jupiter conjunction, lunar eclipse and more
Skywatchers are in for a treat in May 2022 as you will get to experience many events such as a conj…
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A new NASA portrait of Jupiter reveals its disappearing Great Red Spot in unprecedented color
"If the trends we see in the Great Red Spot continue, the next five to 10 years could be very inter…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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New James Webb Space Telescope photos of Jupiter show stunning auroras, faint rings, and tiny moons
The powerful infrared telescope captured images of Jupiter's auroras, which are the brightest in th…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured photos of cyclones, changing colors, and seasons on 4 distant planets
NASA's most powerful space telescope peers across the solar system to spy new storms on Jupiter and…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot may die within your lifetime
"They don't, at least not all of them," Orton told Business Insider in an email. "Think of the GRS …
Dave Mosher
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This incredible NASA animation shows what it's like to fly into Jupiter's Great Red Spot
The most famous storm in the solar system is also one of the largest: Jupiter's Great Red Spot. The…
Rob Ludacer,Rob Ludacer,Jessi…
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot may have only 10 to 20 years left before it dies
"They don't, at least not all of them," Orton said in an email. "Think of the GRS [Great Red Spot] …